OpenSourceDeezNuts

This is a fair point. Forgeable AI is pretty sweet but it’s not a replacement for proper campaign expansions unfortunately

In my opinion it is very good these days. Almost all of the major problems at launch have been resolved. There’s a ton of game modes and maps. They added firefight, forge, custom games, infection, and there are like 15 different playlist to choose from.

They’re actively working on networking improvements (three playlists use the new netcode currently, and they’re using that to test how well it works before making the whole game use it).

Cosmetics are in a much better place than at launch. There are a ton of options and a lot of things work on every armor set.

The biggest issue imo is still the battle pass system. Limited time events (like the Christmas event) replace the season pass if you don’t buy the paid version, so there isn’t much to unlock at a given time unless you pay. But, paid passes never expire, and you can go back and buy old passes, and most passes contain enough credits to buy another pass, so it’s basically a one-ti.e fee.

If you don’t like Halo, nothing has changed that will make you like it. The game plays like it did at launch in terms of gunplay and movement. But the overall experience is in a much better state than at launch

It was about a year ago. A lot of upper management departed. They brought in the guy who used to be in charge of MCC to be the new studio head.

It took a few months to start seeing an impact, but it’s been pretty much constant wins since about Season 4 launched. Only L’s have been monetization stuff, like the shop prices increasing and battle passes still being pretty weak.

343 has been full of W’s ever since the new management took over. We love to see it.

Going from 256GB -> 1TB is $400. That’s insanity. A 1TB NVME drive is less than $100 these days.

This was definitely going to be my answer too

Probably misspoke saying the browser is what detected it, but the first time I went to print anything was from Firefox and the printer was already there.

I just bought one last week and holy shit you aren’t joking. Our Canon was malfunctioning for the last 2 years, so I finally bought a refurbed B&W Brother Laser. I’ve never had a printer just work like this. I didn’t even have to connect to it. My browser just automatically detected it, even on Linux.

Film photography. Started with a camera I got for free, and $20 worth of film. Quickly spiraled into many cameras that I bought or inherited, and so much money on film and development

Finally, an emoji that’s worth being that big

Seriously, my first reaction was “10C isn’t even that cold.”

I think this is the best answer here. The theatrical Palace scene had such a good tone, they totally ruined it when they added Jedi Rocks.

This is my biggest pet peeve. One data point can’t be exponentially more than one other data point without context.

If people still want to sound “smart” because they used a fancy math word, you can say “orders of magnitude more experienced.”

Another bump for Proton. My wife and I share an account with a few different addresses each going to their own folder. (One for me, one for her, one for shopping, one for spam, etc) Their VPN is great too and includes ad/tracker blocking.

Start page is pretty good. From my understanding it uses Google Search Results, just without user-specific results obviously

10 minute burner emails are such a godsend.

What version of Android are you switching to? Fairphone with /e/?

I use banking apps and such on my phone so I’m hesitant to switch to anything other than the latest official Android release I can get

I’ve been using Photoprism. Single-user is fine for me. I see lots of people switching to immich, but haven’t checked it out myself.

Photoprism supports sharing albums via link to people who don’t have accounts. Mine is remotely accessible using Tailscale. I would like to set up proper remote access via DNS, but haven’t made that leap yet, I’m too nervous about opening ports up.

I still play it with friends every couple weeks. We still have a good time, especially now that you can queue FFA with friends, and now that there’s infection. Being able to play against each other adds so much to the experience.

I think the struggle just comes down to how little there was at launch. There was no progression system (the only way to earn anything was to do chores), there weren’t many maps and modes (launching without forge really screen this over), and there was no PvE you could do with friends.

If the game had launched how it is now (so, 2 more years of delay which is insane) I think it wouldn’t have died off as quickly. There’s actual XP now just for playing, there are a lot of maps and modes and a community maps playlist, and campaign co-op.

tl;dr same as what everyone else always says. 343 dropped the ball hard on content at launch.

Exactly the same for me. Choosing an instance based on values, content, or location is so lame. I chose my instance based on the funny name.